I have an 8tb harddrive and 256gb sdd and I want to use them as a game drive on linux. I’m not sure what’s the best method for setting that up is or if it’s even a good idea.
I have an 8tb harddrive and 256gb sdd and I want to use them as a game drive on linux. I’m not sure what’s the best method for setting that up is or if it’s even a good idea.
I think it is still a thing, but I dont know if this is the right application for it. IIRC the benefit comes when storing lots of data as the SSD acts like a buffer to quickly store data while it slowly transfers to the HDD. For gaming, you’ll still need to be reading from the HDD in real time meaning the SSD isn’t going to be helping much. Furthermore, your 8TB drive might already have a decently large cache on it which does the same thing.
most consumer-grade hdd that size are smr, and that’s why they have a larger on-board cache.
if op’s drive is shingled, it’d be shit for running games off of that get updates frequently.